Founder of the pickle-producing company...

JOSEPH VLASIC, 82,

July 13, 1986

PHOENIX, ARIZ. — JOSEPH VLASIC, 82, founder of the pickle-producing company that bears his name, died Thursday. Vlasic, who was born in Yugoslavia and came to the United States as a teen-ager, founded and sold several food-distribution companies before starting Vlasic Foods Inc. in 1959. Vlasic Foods was sold in 1978 to the Campbell Soup Co. Vlasic moved to Scottsdale, a Phoenix suburb, in the early 1960s after spending most of his life in Detroit.